Photography/Kentucky:

These images are part of an ongoing project (since 1999) about my family near Lost Creek, Kentucky. We live in Ganderbill Holler--a property which was deeded tomy ancestors as payment for military service in the Revolutionary War. Over the years our land has been divided and subdivided and subdivided again. My mother was born here by a kerosene lamp in 1948. The illiterate midwife who delivered her signed her birth certificate with a X. These images were made with a 1948 uncoated Rolleiflex TLR that my Jewish grandfather won playing pinball while stationed in Germany after World War II. Using this instrument to make these pictures is an ongoing attempt to reconcile the cultural divide of my heritage.